Prince William Supervisor flips position on preserving the rural area, takes heat after approving 99 new homes
Updated at January 24, 2021 - Uriah Kiser Candidate Kenny Boddye addresses the Prince William Board of County Supervisors three weeks before being elected to represent the Occoquan District.
In the final weeks of his campaign to become the next Occoquan District Supervisor, Kenny Boddye addressed the governing board on which he would soon be elected.
“Every dollar we spend on the rural crescent, to develop it and put houses out there, is a dollar that we can’t put toward schools in the eastern end [of Prince William County] where we have some of the oldest schools in the region,” Boddye said on October 15, 2019.
The McCoart Building at the Prince William County Government Center in Woodbridge.
Supervisors on Tuesday night will have the final say on a project nearly 10 years in the making.
The Prince William Board of County Supervisors will meet for its evening session starting at 7:30 p.m. to hear the case for a rezoning, which would clear the way the Preserve at Long Branch 99 single-family homes to be built in a “conservation community” in the center of Prince William County, in the county’s coveted rural area.
Supervisors must decide if they will approve rezoning 340 acres of land from semi-rural residential to a designation that allows for parks and open space. If built, the neighborhood is accessed by Classic Springs Way, off Bristow Road, and Classic Springs Drive, off Route 234.